328: The US Worlds Team & CEO Dumpster Fire
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
- BREAKING TUESDAY UPDATE: Mary Bono has resigned. We perform a dramatic reading of her resignation letter. Now, to the show.
- USAG appoints Mary Bono as its interim CEO, and Jessica and Spencer have no opinions about that. Oh wait, the opposite.
- The Nike tweet and why that (and her fake apology) is so, so bad
- She worked for the damn USAG law firm
- Meanwhile, Simone is being a CHAMPION
- Has USAG learned NOTHING? (Spoiler: yes)
- On what planet was a politician the right person right now?
ACTUAL GYMNASTICS
- The US women's worlds team has been named! And it makes sense!
- SIMONE DEBUTED A NEW VAULT YOU GUYS
- But seriously. This vault.
- I mean...come on.
- Just...
- Streaming the selection competition — good for everyone!
- Kara Eaker's beam score - how realistic is this?
- BUT WHO IS THE ALTERNATE? WHAT SHOULD THE TEAM FINAL LINEUPS BE? WHO DOES BEAM IN QUALIFICATION? We discuss.
- SIMONE DEBUTED A NEW VAULT YOU GUYS
- A taste of next week's worlds preview as we discuss medal prospects for the US women's team
GYMTERNET NEWS
- Tom Forster did a Twitter Q&A that exceeded expectations and provided some actual information!
- What is the Ted Stevens Act, how is it influencing US Olympic qualification decisions, and does that even make sense?
- USAG released the Jade Carey Rules about individual Olympic qualification. We break them down, with comments.
MEET ROUNDUP
- Youth Olympic Games — Italy has an all-around champion, Simone Biles wins meets she doesn't even enter now, and we dork out about the future for Ireland and Finland
- Romanian nationals — Denisa Golgota withdrew, sending the gymnastics world into a state of panic, but things look good for the 2020 seniors
FURTHER READING
- Things Are Happening – October 13, 2018
- US World Championships Team Named
- Selection Camp – Live Blog
- Things Are Happening – October 9, 2018
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.0 | My withdrawal comes in the wake of personal attacks that left undefended would have made my |
| 0:09.0 | leading USAG a liability for the organization because it's about her the personal attacks Jessica. |
| 0:16.0 | They were personal which is translation for like you actually had to face criticism that |
| 0:20.9 | U.S.C. resignation letter translation personal attacks. criticism that you put out there in public. |
| 0:23.0 | The letter, translation, personal attacks means, oh, you actually had to be held accountable |
| 0:27.4 | for a take that you had that other people didn't like. |
| 0:31.2 | This episode is brought to you by our X bar. For 25% off your first |
| 0:34.9 | order visit rX bar.com forward slash gymnastic and enter promo code |
| 0:39.4 | gymnastic at checkout. Today Simone proves once again that she is a champion in every way by standing up for the people. |
| 0:49.0 | USA gymnastics forgot about social media vetting in job interviews because their new CEO |
| 0:56.2 | hates Nike and Kappernik and everything they stand for and she had no problems |
| 1:00.3 | telling people that. We have a U.S. Women's World Team. Italy has a Youth Olympic |
| 1:07.2 | all-around champion. Simone stuck her new vault. The Earth shook. She got a |
| 1:12.2 | 16 of Romania Nationals and Tom Forster did a Q&A on |
| 1:16.4 | Twitter that wasn't horrible. We're going to talk all about this stuff, you guys. This is episode |
| 1:21.8 | of 328 for October 17th 2018 and welcome to the |
| 1:26.5 | number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy I'm Jessica and I'm here with |
| 1:31.0 | Spencer from the balance beam situation and the most important thing happening right now is the commissions are open again. |
| 1:38.0 | Commissions are open. So we only do so many of these a year. They're on the website,castic under the Support Us tab, you become a club |
| 1:45.4 | gym nerd member, you get special goodies, and for being a member, and also these fill up |
| 1:50.4 | fast, so if you want to get these as a gift for someone you can and if |
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